Notes from AAS IVOA footprint tag up

[David Berry]

On 19 January 2012 15:23, Thomas Boch <thomas.boch at astro.unistra.fr> wrote:
> Hi Alberto,
>
> Would you know whether a library that can parse, digest, and maybe plot
> a generic STC-s region exist?
>
> I asked a similar question 2 months ago. What I remember from the discussion
> is that :
>
> - CADC has developed an STC-S parser in Java
> (http://code.google.com/p/opencadc/source/browse/trunk/projects/#projects%2FcadcTAP%2Fsrc%2Fca%2Fnrc%2Fcadc%2Fstc)
>
> - the AST C library, developed by David Berry, has a STC-S parser
> (http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink/AST) and provides bindings to
> Python, Perl, Java, ...

AST includes facilities for plotting outlines of simple or compound
STC-S regions. See my ADASS 2009 poster:

http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink/AST?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=adass2009.pdf

Also see the on-line demo of ASTs STC-S handling and plotting facilities at

http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink/AST#stcdemo

David